Inflammation-Related Patterns in the Clinical Staging and Severity Assessment of Chronic Kidney Disease

Figure 2

Serum protein profiling in CKD stages 2–4 versus the control. The integrated relative density of the pixels was calculated for each molecule after normalisation to the average signal of the reference spots. The molecules showed an ascending trend of expression according to the severity of the disease; Dkk-1 and vit D BP showed a descending trend.